I was looking at Britain's government website today that they setup for their citizens to create petitions. I wonder do they take the petitions seriously or do they do it to keep the public at bay? Then I started wondering about other petition sites, the general everyday types. Does ANYONE take those petitions seriously? At least with paper and pen petitions you knew you were getting individual people. With epetitions, you don't know what you're getting.

Just me thinking out loud and wondering if it's all a big waste of time!
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EDIT: I went and clicked on start a petition and made one as a test. It's the one about Dennis Kucinich on the homepage. I always see the people on reddit.com going crazy over him, so I wanted to see how many of them would sign the petition. Turns out not very many.